i had an idea for a mod with real elevation maps for all countries.
There are Publicly Available free elevation databases. they have precision around 3 km.

Many Geographics program can open these DB. my idea was to export to gray level map, but i dont know how. the programs seems to export to color maps, maps whit shadows, but not simple gray level map. there must be a way.

btw, if u can get a color map off of those… can u attempt sending it to grayscale with photoshop/gimp

Nope they are pseudo colors. converting to gray scale require to know exact palette. the problem is that main export is not from top view, but some how with sun shadows (to get real imagination about height)

is there a way i can get the whole world on grayscale.. like one of those flat planet maps converted… then i’ll split it up into continents or something and it’ll be cool

if you’re asking me to do it, depends how much work you want me to do.

you can give me 3 europe sized areas of the world if you like. i can’t do the whole thing. that vrml generator has a max of 65k triangles. and you’d still have to tweak it to get it working in scorched.

did you notice the contrast between land-height and ocean depth? the heights in the first map were already exaggerated 20x.